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St Spyridon the Wonderworker

St Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Trimythous

Άγιος Σπυρίδων ο Θαυματουργός, Επίσκοπος Τριμυθούντος · Свѧти́тель Спѷрїдѡ́нъ, е҆пі́скопъ Тримѵѳу́нтскїй, чудотво́рецъ · Святитель Спиридон, епископ Тримифунтский, чудотворец

St Spyridon the Wonderworker is remembered on 12 December (25 December on the Old Calendar). Orthodox Christians pray to St Spyridon the Wonderworker for a roof over one's head: finding, buying, selling or renting a home, help in financial difficulties and the return of debts and finding work.

Feast days

Feast
Repose
Kept on
12 December (25 December on the Old Calendar)
Next, New Calendar
Next, Old Calendar

The New Calendar is kept by the Greek, Antiochian, Romanian and Bulgarian churches, the OCA and most converts; the Old Calendar by the Russian, Serbian and Georgian churches, Jerusalem and Mount Athos, 13 days later on the civil calendar.

The life of St Spyridon the Wonderworker

Saint Spyridon was a shepherd on Cyprus at the end of the third century, a married man with children, who spent everything he had on his neighbors and the homeless. God rewarded his mercy with the gift of wonderworking, and he became Bishop of Trimythous while remaining a simple shepherd at heart. At the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea he confounded the heretics by squeezing a brick into fire, water and dust to show the one God in three Persons. He lent to the poor without records, brought rain to drought-stricken fields, healed the sick and even raised the dead. He reposed in prayer around 348, and his incorrupt relics, brought to Corfu in the fifteenth century, rest there in his own church. Orthodox Christians pray to Saint Spyridon for a home, for help with money and work, and for healing, trusting that he still walks the world, wearing out his slippers in the service of all who call on him.

What the faithful ask of St Spyridon the Wonderworker

The faithful pray for

  • a roof over one's head: finding, buying, selling or renting a home
  • help in financial difficulties and the return of debts
  • finding work
  • justice in legal troubles
  • the help of God in business
  • healing of illness of body and soul
  • rain in drought and fair weather in floods
  • faith in the Holy Trinity

St Spyridon the Wonderworker protects

  • the poor from want
  • families from losing their homes
  • flocks and property from thieves
  • Corfu, the island that keeps his relics

Patron of

  • Corfu (its "Keeper of the City")
  • Cyprus
  • shepherds
  • the poor and those in debt
  • those seeking housing
  • farmers in drought or flood

Miracles

  1. At the First Ecumenical Council he squeezed a brick: fire shot up, water dripped to the ground and dust remained, showing how three can be one in the Holy Trinity.

    Source: Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus (OCA)

  2. Thieves who broke into his sheepfold found themselves bound by an invisible power; he released them, urged them to honest work and gave them a sheep.

    Source: Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus (OCA)

  3. On Corfu he is called the 'walking saint': the silk slippers on his incorrupt relics wear out from his travels to help people and are replaced, and the old slippers are given to churches as holy gifts.

    Source: Patron Saint (Saint Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Worcester MA)

Where the traditions differ

Russian piety especially asks him for housing, money and work; Greeks honor him above all as the 'Keeper of the City' of Corfu. In the Russian folk calendar his day (25 Dec civil) is called 'Spiridon Solntsevorot' (Spiridon of the Solstice).

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Questions

When is the feast day of St Spyridon the Wonderworker?

Repose: 12 December (25 December on the Old Calendar).

What do Orthodox Christians pray to St Spyridon the Wonderworker for?

Orthodox Christians pray to St Spyridon the Wonderworker for a roof over one's head: finding, buying, selling or renting a home, help in financial difficulties and the return of debts, finding work, justice in legal troubles, the help of God in business and healing of illness of body and soul.

What is St Spyridon the Wonderworker the patron saint of?

St Spyridon the Wonderworker is the patron of Corfu (its "Keeper of the City"), Cyprus, shepherds, the poor and those in debt, those seeking housing and farmers in drought or flood.

What does St Spyridon the Wonderworker protect from?

St Spyridon the Wonderworker protects the poor from want, families from losing their homes, flocks and property from thieves and Corfu, the island that keeps his relics.

Whose name day is on a feast of St Spyridon the Wonderworker?

The name day of Spyridon, Spiridon, Spyros, Spiros and Spyridoula.

Sources

  1. Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus (OCA) (read 14 October 2026)
  2. Святитель Спиридон, епископ Тримифунтский (Азбука веры) (read 14 October 2026)
  3. Спиридон Тримифунтский в России: о чём попросить святого (АиФ) (read 14 October 2026)
  4. Patron Saint (Saint Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Worcester MA) (read 14 October 2026)
  5. Спиридон Солнцеворот (Calend.ru, народный календарь) (read 14 October 2026)